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Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Still looking good, the old Maverick himself, James Garner, rides into an old West boom town and generally takes over with understated good humor and a lightning gun that doesn't get much of a workout. The genre parody takes off right from the start with a nice view of Madame Orr's House, and if you didn't get the hint this was going to be a spoof right then and there, you probably weren't paying attention. With Jack Elam on board, you never quite know if he's going to be a good guy or a villain, so when he backs up the new sheriff at the saloon, you have the makings of a clever team up. As with almost everything else in the story, Jason McCullough's (Garner) romancing of the mayor's daughter (Joan Hackett) comes slow and easy, and you had to get a kick out of their cowardly/mature conversation right before the shootout with the Danby's. I'd have to say the cannon gimmick with Joe Danby (Bruce Dern) was pretty clever, but did you notice? Right after Prudy shot two of the Danby kin out of the thirteen that arrived to help out Pa (Walter Brennan), there were still thirteen lined up against McCullough and the cannon. Makes you wonder whether thirteen was their lucky number or not.

The town of Calendar, Colorado becomes a gold boom town overnight when the town folks discover gold in a fresh grave during a funeral. It's the lawless wild west. The town is held hostage to the Danbys since they have to transport the gold through their territories. The town council including Olly Perkins (Harry Morgan) is desperate to find a new sheriff. Jason McCullough (James Garner) is new in town and gets into a argument with Joe Danby (Bruce Dern). Jason decides to take the job of sheriff which comes with room and board at the Perkins. His first job is to arrest Joe Danby and he recruits Jake (Jack Elam) as his deputy. Olly's daughter Prudy Perkins (Joan Hackett) is a hothead, accident-prone klutz.It's a fun slapstick western. James Garner is quite a sly leading man. He makes this work. Basically he's the only one in on the jokes. He's great at that character. The jail cell idea is hilarious. Jack Elam has the best look ever. For me, he will always be the crazy doctor in 'The Cannonball Run'. The weak point is probably Joan Hackett. She's fine in comedic acting but the chemistry isn't really there.

Sadly, it didn't get the fame of other Westerns, but it definitely was better than most of them. The topnotch performers and direction helped make a parody Western just ridiculous enough without overdoing it, and it kept us interested in what would happen next and how it would all conclude.James Garner stars as a drifter who enters a Western town where gold had been found, and a gold rush has brought a bunch of wild people in-but they all fear the Danby clan, who take part of the gold from the townsfolk and whose members kill people at will, with no fear of any law. Finally Garner intervenes, and the mayor and city council hire him for the new sheriff, as two had already been killed and the third fled in fear. It turns out Garner is a very fast and accurate shooter, and the Danbys learn this when they try to spring their jailed relative. Stupid as they are, they learn how brave and clever and deadly the new sheriff is. What to do?Garner's character not only resorts to gun-play, but often uses his wits to outsmart the bad guys, and he works with little support from the cowardly townspeople. Eat your heart out, Alan Ladd!

Spoof Western with magnificent starring duo as James Garner as a likable sheriff and Joan Hackett as fem-lib mayor's daughter , both of whom giving great lots of fun . In the old west, a man becomes a sheriff just for the pay, figuring he can decamp if things get tough. The film talks about a gambler just passing through who gets roped into being sheriff (James Garner) who finds his nemesis an old baron land (Walter Brennan) . One trouble-shooting sheriff always puts his finger on it or in it , no wonder they call him : The fastest finger in the west . The sheriff cleans a lawless town in his own highly individual way and is helped by an inept deputy (Jack Elam) . In the end, he uses ingenuity instead and gets to tame a lawless mining town against all odds . This wacky spoof is packed with mayhem , lots of silly laughters and great entertainment and fun . Most of the laughs and sight gags galore work acceptably well ; humor is also bold and intelligent with a myriad of imaginative sketches . Demystified Western was one of a group of much-imitated which changed the concept of this particular genre each bent on disproving a popular myth , yet tinged with humor , spoof and combining with anti-heroes , and the inevitable decadence protagonists . The formula deals to enhance the comics observations of the western originated on the decade 60 with the following filmmakers : Andrew McLagen and Burt Kennedy , fine director of this movie, and a bit later on , Mel Brooks directed the indispensable ¨Blazing saddles¨ , a surrealist , extreme and gross-out spoof with the ordinary bunch of loonies and loopies . Burt Kennedy directed similar Western blending comedy such as : ¨Support your local gunfighter (one of his better spoof Western)¨ , ¨Support your local sheriff¨ (his highpoint) , ¨Dirty Dingus Mcgee¨ , ¨War Wagon¨ and ¨ The Good guys and bad guys¨ . The picture is wonderfully amused and enjoyable with James Garner as a tough but sympathetic sheriff with his Maverick image who uses brains as well as brawny and guns . William Bowers's screenplay besides having more than its fair scraps of funny lines ,throws up rich personages . Thus , Walter Brennan makes a robustly likable characterization as well as Bruce Dern as a snide gunman and Harry Morgan as the Mayor . Special mention to Jack Elam as the old brawler clearly relishing his comic relief . Colorful cinematography rightly shot by excellent cameraman Harry Stradling , Burt Kennedy's usual . Jolly and agreeable musical score by Jeff Alexander .This very funny motion picture was well directed by Burt Kennedy . He initially was screenwriter , his initial effort, ¨Seven men from now¨ (1956), was a superb western, the first of the esteemed collaboration between director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott. Kennedy wrote most of that series, as well as a number of others for Batjac, although it would be nearly 20 years before Wayne actually appeared in the film of a Kennedy script. In 1960 Kennedy got his first work as a filmmaker on a western, ¨The Canadians¨ (1961), but it was a critical failure . He turned to television where he wrote and directed episodes of "Lawman" (1958), "The Virginian " (1962) and most notably ¨Combat!"(1962). He returned to films in 1965 with the successful Te Canadians (1965), later producing and directing the pilot for the TV series of the same name. ¨Support you local sheriff¨ results to be one of his best Western . The film will appeal to absurd, unruly , wacky Western comedy fans . This raucous Western spoof is a James Garner vehicle , if you like his particular performance ,you'll enjoy this one .